Articles tagged with: teaching
A blast from the past or back to the future?
Some time ago, my past caught up with me and it was both a pleasure and a shock.
In 1968, at the ripe young age of 22, I was a chemistry teacher to a group of …
Beyond the Textbook: Righting the Math Course
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The lecture, textbook, worksheet, pop-quiz, test and exam cycle are the traditional delivery tools used in most schools to teach mathematics. It’s the way you and I were probably taught math. Teachers, at the …
POP goes the Portfolio: Digital portfolio in the POP Classroom
One of the main goals of schooling is to prepare students for a fulfilling life in the workplace, an often difficult task when you are functioning in a traditional course-based high-school model. Enter The Personal …
Geolocalize it: The global context of everything
The idea for this blog post came to me after I presented a short webinar on the mapping and drawing application Cartograf last week (Archive available here). Previously I had published a post about …
Teacher Book Picks: Favourites from the Field
With the winter holidays quickly upon us, many educators across the province will soon be on a two week break from the classroom. Susan and I thought that this might be an opportune time to …
A Critical Conversation About Literacy Part III: A Place to Start in Today’s Classroom
by Melanie Stonebanks
You don’t have to have all the answers. You only need to know the questions to ask.
As has been discussed in the previous two postings on this topic, critical literacy is a way …
